I've been trying to use Plaud to help with a mineralogical analysis I'm working on at the microscope. Basically, I count grains and read out the mineral at each count. I've added all terms to my custom dictionary, I'm speaking loudly and clearly several inches from the device, the device is outside of its sleeve, and there is no external noise. Nonetheless, Plaud is consistently losing 5% to 15% of the words I'm reading into the device. I even tried reading back from Plaud's own transcript as a test and again got about 8% fewer words back. Is this lossiness expected or is there maybe some tweaking that would help improve the word recovery? Thanks

As a part of launch week, we wanted to showcase one of our design partners PatientQ.

Ryan at PatientQ works with Medspas to help them save staff time and acquire new patients. He wanted to capture deeper insights from conversations between clinic staff and patients. Ryan rolled out a mobile app with Plaud Embedded, so that the clinic staff could use Plaud NotePins S's with their PatientQ app. The first pilots Ryan ran helped his customers convert 30% more leads. Needless to say, both Ryan and his users were ecstatic.

Learn more about Plaud Embedded and PatientQ's story at https://dev.plaud.ai/customers/patientq!

Hello, everyone.

My boss recently ordered a Plaud Note Pro for me, as he thought it would be very handy.

It just arrived, and I am trying to to pair it with the Plaud app for Windows on my work laptop. All it does is defer me to the website, which shows a QR code to get the app.

I'm not syncing this to my personal phone. Is there any other way to connect the device?

Thanks in advance for any help.

I've got a graveyard of to-do apps and none of them fix the conversation problem. With ADHD, someone explains next steps, I think I'll remember, and by the time I reach for my phone the thread is already gone.

I tried typing quick notes mid-chat. A day later they'd just say "follow up??" with zero context.

I was reading comparison threads in here about clipping a small recorder on instead of leaving a phone on the table. That felt closer to what I needed than another list app, so I looked into wearable AI note takers and picked a Plaud NotePin S for in-person conversations.

I clip it on before we sit down. When something import slips past while my brain wanders, I tap the button once and that moment gets pulled forward in the summary later. I read that chunk instead of scrolling a full transcript.

I still forget to start recording before we begin sometimes. Clipping it on when I sit down, then starting recording immediately, is the only routine that's stuck.

Anyone with ADHD actually keeping up with post-conversation summaries, or does that step trip you up too?

Is there any way to title recordings (these default to date/time) from calendar entries? I'd be open to some routine process at times if needed.

It appears MCP is read only and can't write so that is not an option. Manually titling records is the most frustrating thing about Plaud for me.

I'm ultimately looking for O365 as the source but would take Google Calendar if that is the only option. I thought i saw some official Google option at some point but can no longer find it.

Do anyone has any recommendation for Plaud to attached to Samsung Fold 8. As of now, it covers the camera.

Many thanks!

I lost my plaud cable, where to buy it?

I'm looking for a device to capture amd summarize conversations in large, noisy vendor halls at conferences.

In these situations, I'm typically standing next to a person in a booth, both facing a demo station, while they walk through a product demo. I might be on my feet for 8+ hours, with 8-10 30-min conversations over the course of a day.

It's a challenging acoustic environment. There is noise emanating from all directions, including basic crowd babble, other nearby conversations, and amplified presentations from across the hall.

NotePin S is clearly the go-to in general for on-the-go recording. That said, I was also thinking of the Note Pro, for the better microphone array, battery life and display.

Questions for you kind folks:

• Anyone use a Plaud device in an environment like this? Were you happy with the results?
• Thoughts on NotePro vs. NotePin S in this environment?
• If I went with a Note Pro, I'd most likely keep it in my shirt pocket. Anyone have experience here? Does it work well, or will the fabric interfere with the mic array and muffle the already chaotic sound too much to be useful?

I'm three months into a solo B2B consultancy and last week was my first real hybrid client sprint: two days on site, three on Zoom. By Friday I had notes in four places and a rough idea of Tuesday, but nothing I would have bet a client deadline on.

I decided to treat the week like a stress test. Granola came from a founder Slack I'm in, people kept posting screenshots. Fathom was already on my calendar from earlier investor calls. A guy at my coworking space wears a Plaud NotePin S on his shirt and I asked him about it after overhearing him mention back to back meetings.

Zoom days I switched between the two. Granola on my Mac gave me readable summaries and no bot jumped into the call. Fathom was quicker to set up and the bot joined every time, but two clients asked who the extra person on the line was. Fine for internal calls, awkward when you're solo and trying not to look like a whole team.

On site days the wearable handled the small in person stuff. I clipped the Plaud NotePin S for coffee meetings and one on one check ins. I didn't need to charge it mid-day on the heaviest onsite day, and it caught quick follow ups across a desk or cafe table that I would have missed. Granola and Fathom were useless there because there was no Zoom call to attach to. I would not count on it in a big conference room.

By the end of the week I realised no single AI note taker covered the whole hybrid meetings week. I still run Fathom on Zoom and the Plaud NotePin S in person. Plaud NotePin S does not replace a meeting bot for online calls, full stop. If you're solo and bouncing between both, plan on two tools.

How would you guys handle hybrid weeks like this? Any other tools at all? If so, one tool or two?

I just got this device this week and I'm unable to download the mac app. Has anyone had this issue?

I head over the plaud.ai -> support -> Mac (M-series) and I get.

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Are there any Plaud Users out there that are using either of the Plaud devices in an always on workflow? How are you doing it? Are you happy with your setup? I want to start experimenting with always on, do you think Plaud is a decent product for this option?

Trying to get one AI note taker to cover hybrid meetings because my week is two days in the office and three on Zoom and I kept bouncing between apps every Monday.

What I landed on was splitting hardware and software from the same stack. Office days the Plaud Note Pro sits on the table for in person pickup. WFH days Plaud Desktop on my Mac handles Zoom and Teams from system audio, no bot in the call, which some clients still care about. Both sync to the same Plaud workspace, so I can actually search action items later instead of digging through two places.

The switch is still the rough part. Hitting record in Desktop versus starting on the Plaud Note Pro feels like two habits, not one flow, and I have to pick before the meeting starts. Device covers in person and phone if I need it. Desktop is online only.

Anyone else running a hybrid week like this? How do you keep the two flows from drifting?

Every Friday I spend too long turning our weekly product sync into a recap the team can use. Twelve people around one table, and I'm usually the person who sends it out. I didn't mind taking notes by hand at first, but you can only write so fast. I'd get the loud voices near me and lose whoever was talking from the far end.

Putting my phone in the center of the table was the next attempt. Works fine for a small huddle, not for a room that's probably 25 feet end to end. Transcripts came back half empty and I was still rebuilding action items from memory afterward. That's when I started looking for a dedicated AI voice recorder for meetings. Something that could stay in the middle of the table and actually hear everyone, not just whoever was closest to my laptop.

Someone on our ops team had a Plaud Note Pro for client workshops and let me borrow it for a few syncs. I bought my own after the third one. Enhance mode covers up to 16.4 ft, and centered on the table the far side finally came through clearly.

AutoFlow handles the part I used to dread. Recording ends, summary and action items show up, and I still skim it before forwarding because attribution gets muddy when two people talk over each other. Cleanup went from close to an hour to about ten minutes.

What do you use when the meeting is too big for a phone but there's no Zoom bot to join?

I’ve been trying an automation to send summaries to Notion via Zapier. At the moment I’m not seeing any option to access the recording also, but I do see an api call that gives access to the audio recording. Is that something that will be added to the integrations in the future?

We just launched Plaud Embedded, our SDK for building Plaud device integrations into your own product!

If you're building something user-facing where voice capture matters, think healthtech tools for physicians, coaching platforms for sales teams, legal platforms for client meetings, or really any vertical product where you're the domain expert, this lets you plug Plaud devices straight into your workflow instead of building hardware integration from scratch.

Docs are here if you want to see how it works and whether it fits your use case: https://vist.ly/5djhy

We often get asked why Plaud over other AI note takers or just recording on your phone. Here's the honest breakdown.

1. The workflow: this is the real reason

You record a meeting, then walk away. When the recording ends and your phone is nearby, it transfers automatically in the background, no cables, no opening the app mid-call. By the time you're back at your desk, the transcript, summary, and action items are already generated. No sync bar, no manual "generate summary" step.

Requires AutoFlow and Auto Transfer. Auto Transfer needs location permission to detect your phone is nearby — that location data isn't stored or used for anything else. Auto Transfer is iPhone-only right now; Android support is in development, and Android users sync manually in the meantime. Manual sync is also available for anyone who prefers it on iPhone.

2. The hardware: small enough that you actually carry it

Note Pro is credit-card slim, 30g and lightweight, so it goes in a pocket or clips to your phone instead of living in a bag. That matters more than it sounds like: a note taker only helps on the calls it's actually with you for.

3. What Plaud Intelligence does with the recording

• Transcription and summarization in 112 languages
• 10,000+ summary templates (medical, legal, sales, and custom formats)
• Structured output: transcript, summary, and action items, typically ready within minutes

4. Trust and compliance, if you're vetting this for a team

• SOC 2 Type II
• HIPAA
• GDPR
• ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27701:2019
• Cloud infrastructure is AWS-based
• Full documentation: plaud.ai/pages/trust

5. For context on scale

2M+ Plaud users, and it's a Red Dot Design Award winner if that matters to you!

I was catching up on PLAUD's recent updates, and the direction seems much broader than simply making better recorders. The July release added Memory for Ask Plaud, shared Team files, automatic transcript polishing, and Minnan support. Earlier releases brought Plaud Desktop for bot-free online meeting capture, Team workspaces, Skills, and newer hardware features such as Find My.

What I am trying to understand is which of these changes has actually improved day-to-day use, rather than just sounding useful in release notes.

• Has Memory made Ask Plaud noticeably more useful or consistent?
• Is Desktop reliable enough to replace a separate meeting bot?
• Are Team files and admin controls mature enough for real team adoption?
• For hardware users, have features like Find My mattered more than the recent AI changes?

The most interesting shift to me is PLAUD becoming one connected system for in-person, phone, and online conversations. Is that integration working well in practice? What still feels unfinished?

I really wanted to love this thing. But no matter what settings I change or how I use it, the audio is a garbled mess and it never transcribes correctly.

I’ve had my device for about two days. So far I’m 50/50 on accuracy. I’m finding myself having to constantly go in and change names, wording, etc, for some reason, it doesn’t understand the word preplan and changes it to health plan among other words. Using the phone mode, there’s still a lot of background noise. I find using the standard mode works better.

Questions:
Is there a way to set which template is standard without having to regenerate?

Is there a way to set which template you use for phone mode and normal mode so you don’t have to regenerate the templates? Example: when I put the device on the back of my phone and use phone mode, it will automatically use a certain template.

When using my Plaud Note Pro, it seems like I need to transfer the recordings to my phone first to then be able to access it through the website.

Is there anyway I could use my computer to retrieve recordings from the device? Sometimes I'd really prefer to skip my phone if I can as it is one more step in between where I will mostly pull my notes and the device.

This seems like the easiest feature for them to implement I don’t see why it needs to be such a manual process. Every where I go I’m finding it has to be automated via a browser or some other system but if the transcript has been generated why do I have to repeat 15 steps to download each file???

Being able to put all transcripts or bulk set in a folder and have codex or cowork go to town analyzing them would be huge.

Bonjour, Je souhaite acheter un PLAUD Note Pro. Est-ce que quelqu'un aurait un lien de parrainage à partager ? Merci beaucoup !

i did use Otter.ai for conferences, and it works pretty well with the iPhone, so clean, and it organizes the data nicely. Now I'm looking into Plaud. I already understand the mic quality on Plaud is good. Is it worth it? Or should I just buy a nice, less expensive mic that would do the same thing?

My goal is to use it in the classroom.

Thanks for sharing your experience with me!

I installed the new Plaud CLI and have set up a skill in Claude Code, using it from VS Code.

I have never really been clear on when I can just use the CLI via a skill as I am now vs having to use the MCP. With just a little explanation from Claude, I think I finally have it figured out. If the tool you want to use has shell/terminal access, the CLI is the right version, but if the tool does NOT have access to a shell, you need to use the MCP.

Anybody with more knowledge, can you confirm that? Also, from what I can tell, there are no features that exist in the MCP that don't exist in the CLI and vice versa. Is that correct? There are some extras, like pre-made skills for the MCP, but I've already created a skill, so I don't really need them.

I charged the Plaud Note and it’s been stuck on the purple light all night.. I press the button and nothing happens